Germination: The Avant-Garden Body-Sculptures, The Barbican London
Performance and costumes by Le Fil
‘Germination: The Avant-Garden Body-Sculptures’, was a live-sculpture performance created for LuckyPDF TV and filmed in the Barbican Conservatory. One of Le Fil''s most intriguing projects yet, it conveys the essence of his philosophy: the Filosophical concept of cyclical growth and the "sculptural body", a meeting point for different lines and ideas and components, free of any gender-constricting fashions and existing politics. "My body-sculptures aren't 'fashion' - but they do share similar notions of identity and escapism.”
Everytime I Come I Cry A Tear
Performance, fashion, ceramic sculpture and installation by Le Fil
Untitled (Female Study)
Card sculpture made by Le Fil winning Design Champion Leeds
Untitled (Statue)
Ceramic body-sculpture made for performance
'The Statue' series examined the relationship between an object and its’ image. Each performance and photograph features a specifically made handcrafted ceramic body-sculpture, exploring masculinity such as two archetypal male persona's - 'The Warrior' and 'The Classical Adonis'.
Untitled (Statue)
Ceramic body-sculpture made for performance
The Commuter
Ceramic body-sculpture made for performance
The Commuter
Ceramic body-sculpture made for performance
POP-ME-UP
Performance project with Wieden + Kennedy London
'POP-ME-UP', a unique part-performance, part-entrepreneurial pop-up advertising agency. Le Fil was based in the W+K’s busy windows, which were located directly in the centre of the financial district and the hub of local creatives. Utilising their business acumen, Le Fil and a team of businessmen asked anybody and everybody to advertise anything in a 15cm x 15cm space within their windows for £1/day! Many flocked to the windows including acclaimed British artists Gilbert and George, who contributed an advert for their own art exhibition. With the central theme of interactivity dominating the project - this performative installation questioned commerce and creativity, performance and reality, irony and homage - whilst creating a remarkable snapshot of an active creative audience. POP-ME-UP was not only an ingenious creative endeavour, but it has since set a business trend, influencing many new pop-up offices to use empty windows for their advertising ventures.
WHATELSE MAGAZINE
Live art performance of Untitled (Bodies)
"(Untitled) Bodies" is a ritualistic transformation re-modifying the body's appearance into a revisioned new entity using raw clay and cling film – a material used symbolically to keep the raw clay fresh and alive. It forms a ritualistic procedure where clay is moulded onto the body, deconstructing and reconstructing its shape and presenting the male body as a new entity. The clay acted as cells and the cling film as skin, representing the lengths we go to in order to construct our own personal image and identity.
TRIBES
Drawings by Le Fil